Ramifications of Video Game Play for Academic Learning and Cognitive Skill Acquisition: Introduction

The prevalence of video game play as an integral part of children and adolescents' media diet has generated interest in how it might affect academic learning. However, current developmental research fails to highlight this issue. The 5 articles in this special section are designed to spark developmental psychologists' greater interest by suggesting ways to conceptualize what children and adolescents gain from the time they spend playing video games, and how the cognitive skills and strategies they use may transfer to, or at least influence, what they do in the context of more academic tasks.